Hey, who’s got an RSS feed?
The other day, Rusty Bytes made a call out to Neocities, asking for anybody whose site had an RSS feed to share it. This made me wonder: would the community benefit from a page that compiles all Neocities-hosted sites that do maintain an RSS or Atom feed? Then I figured, well, it couldn’t hurt to try at least.
So over the weekend, I’ve been pecking away at a prototype for such a page. It’s nothing fancy; it is largely just a list of links to the sites, profiles, and feeds of folks who you can subscribe to via an RSS reader. Or at least, that’s the plan. I just need some sites.
I know a selection of sites that have an RSS feed, because I’m already following a bunch of them. And I could use this knowledge to build up a decently-sized list pretty quickly. But after I thought about it, I figured this should be an opt-in sort of thing. I didn’t want somebody who objected for any reason to have to come track me down and ask to be removed. I’m not here to be a pain in the ass.
However, that means that the list currently contains a single site: mine. Skep’s Place. Kind of a lame list (and doesn’t give me a lot to test by). So if you have a feed and you want your site to be included when I launch this thing—which I don’t expect to be very far in the future—hit me up. Here is the information that will specifically be shared:
- Site name and URL
- Neocities profile name and URL
- Feed URL
- Neocities tags (if available)
- Button (if available)
I’ll try to track down these items myself, but if you don’t want me to miss anything it’s best to email me.
Eventually I think this RSS site would also be a good resource for tutorials on creating and subscribing to feeds and recommending reader applications, but I am a man of big ambitions and little time, so I expect these things would come later down the line. I would love to make this a community effort and showcase though, so if you’d be interested in writing a guide, helping with code, or anything else of the sort, I’d be happy for the company.
But mostly I just need things to put on the list.